Music

It’s a little odd for me to write up and list a bigass top ten like this. I mean, I could list the records just as easy or point people to my listology or whatever. I know the 7 or so people who read this thing on a regular basis and the vast majority of […]

Last Thursday, October 19, Naked Raygun played a semi-unannounced warmup show at a small club in Chicago. I was bummed I couldn’t go, this was the first Chicago performance of Naked Raygun I’ve missed since September of 1986. Thank you, however, to the kind soul who posted this video on YouTube. The sound is for […]

So a couple months ago I went to see Scratch Acid at The Showbox and I recorded a video of them playing “Damned For All Time” on my pocket camera. Like any good modern internet nerd I uploaded this video to YouTube for everyone’s enjoyment. After uploading this video, I noticed that someone else had […]

If I wanted to listen to over-produced quasi-Springsteen bullshit I’d rent Eddie And The Cruisers.

Holy shit Greg’s blogging. So, uh, yeah. 5 months between posts. How about that. You know what it is? I get all up in arms about how everything has to be “written” so that it “makes sense” and you know “has a grand statement” or some shit. I’m done, I’m just gonna blurt and maybe […]

As anyone who reads this blog outside of an RSS feeds has probably noticed, there is a new little graphic over on the right representing my most played bands for the last week. This comes courtesy of last.fm, a new music-based social networking site which tracks the music you play. You have to download and […]

I never wanted to be the MP3 blog guy but I was driving around today listening to these guys and I was just thinking about how its a shame nobody knows about them. The Newtown Neurotics were a late-70s/early-80s punk band from England and they are criminally overlooked. They played unabashedly leftist anthems heavily influenced […]

An extremely entertaining book chronicling the life and death of a dozen of the most influential punk, grunge and indie rock bands to come up through the 80s and 90s. Azerrad’s writing style leaves a little to be desired on occasion (he really hits the ominous forehadowing wayyyyy too hard) but overall this is really […]

I suppose I should do this post too. I made a really concerted effort this year to try and listen to a lot of current release albums and new bands, which you wouldn’t know from this list since 6 of the 10 are old favorites. Feel free to view my Listology ranking of 2005 release […]